What is your Hog bowshot/retreival ratio?

[miket]

My kids and I have been hunting a big boar that we have been getting pics of lately. We were in a popup and he finally showed up just after dark. My 7y/o son held the light on him. As he turned, quartering away I shot him right behind the shoulder about 1/2 to 1/3 of the way up fron his brisket . It looked like he was turned enough that the arrow should have hit the off-side shoulder. He took off and we left and came back about 30 mins later to look for blood. Aftr looking for about an hour we couldn't find any blood so we gave up and waited till this morning. After looking for a while, I found my fletching on the ground on a trail leading to the neighbors land. It looked like it was ripped off while he was running. I'm using a rage 3 blade and have had all pass throughs (except a doe I spined) up to this point( 4 pigs, 3 deer ). I know sometimes you lose some, but I hate killing something but not retreiving it. What kind of shot to retrieval ratio is normal (for pigs). What is yours?

[bowhuntertex]

As of rigth now I am 100% on hogs and javis........can't say the same for deer.......Pigs are tough animals and can go a long ways before expiring...........

[Bisch]

Miket, I don't know what the ratio would be for me but I can say I have lost more hogs than any other kind of animal. Hogs seem to possess an extra will to survive that other animals don't have. I have lost a couple that I swear were great shots ( 1 or 2 of those were on video and everyone that saw it said they could not believe I did not recover the animal).

Bisch

[TimHicks]

The problem with big boars is the shield or hard fat will cover right over and let the hog go without much blood. You made the right shot and it should not be far usually they will go about 50 yards with this kind of shot and no blood. It is possible to go farther if hit high but more than likely he is dead. percentage for me...I would say I have recovered 95% it may be the next day but I usually find them

[Eagles1181]

For me, my ratio of shot/recovered is 0/0. Hoping to change that soon.

Eagle

[tkuehn5410]

I have shot three big hogs with my bow and found 2 of them. Both had little to no blood, but I found the animal. I hate hogs, btw.

[JTeLarkin08]

i have shot over 40 and i can only think of 1 that i have wounded. so im around 97.728947398 percent. The pigs just surrender when i shoot at them. LOL

[skeeter]

80%

The ones I have not found were BIG boars that didnt bleed due to the shield and fat. I know they died, just didnt find em.

[Christian_Redraider]

1/3 and the one I found was a few days later. Almost no blood, except on the arrow in all three cases. Those hogs are tanks!

[recar]

so is it better to try and hit the hog with a quartering away shot? better chance of hitting the pump station?

[glen]

Ive shot a few and recovered most. Ive lost a few also. Have no idea how many I have shot but I usually shoot them until I have enough in the freezer and give a few away. My wife has never lost one. She has killed big boars and she is always very patient- waits for a hard quartering shot- and puts it in the kitchen. I know she has shot 6 and one over 250#. I think the key is getting in behind the shield and all the fat.

[JTeLarkin08]

80%

The ones I have not found were BIG boars that didnt bleed due to the shield and fat. I know they died, just didnt find em.

thats weird most of the decent size boars i have shot have ran less than 100 yards. my biggest was around 300. I have shot 2 or 3 over 250 that ran less than 30 yards. i usually shoot them through that shield strait up the leg. The little ones usually run a long way it seems. I dont know thats just my expreience.

[flufster]

1/2 and the one i found stood up when i got close and then expired...might not have found him if he would have stayed buried up in the brush....the second one was a white color and hard to see in the rocks.....it was kinda high shot placement but could see blood pouring out but didnt find much on the ground...my tracking skills stink too

[huntresss]

miket- my husband and I own and operate a hog hunting operation and we use a bloodtracking/bay dog to recover wounded animals. When we first started the business, we noticed what we thought was an unusually high number of animals lost so we kept statistics. Basically our hunters only recovered about 60% of all animals they shot (compounds and traditional gear combined). This number included animals which were shot in the ham, gut, neck or any other unintended target that still killed the animal. After using the dog to recover the wounded game, we had the luxury of examining each animal to determine what went wrong and here's what we found: Unlike deer and other cervidae, hogs can survive a one-lung hit. Many animals that were shot while quartering were hit in only one lung. The heart and lungs lie to far forward on a hog that unless you hit the heart or aorta, it's difficult to get a lethal lung shot when they're quartering. While there are many hogs killed by quartering shots, it's almost always because a major artery or the heart was hit. Far more often however, hogs hit while quartering end up dying only when we put a piece of lead in their cranium. Ever since we started recommending that our hunters only take broadside shots, their kill rate has improved significantly. I hope this helps you.

-Cheryl Napper

[flufster]

that makes sense....i will try that next weekend for sure...i tried for the quartering shot every time